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- frgmstr, on 11/07/2007, -1/+12OCZ just put out a press release that it is going to support ESA.
http://www.ocztechnology.com/aboutocz/press/2007/2 ... - BugMeNot2, on 11/07/2007, -0/+9AnandTech has a good article on ESA, too.
http://anandtech.com/casecoolingpsus/showdoc.aspx? ... - zootermopsis, on 11/07/2007, -3/+10Cool white paper, but until we can see it and use it, not going to get too excited.
- FlyCO, on 11/07/2007, -0/+5AMD simply wouldn't have enough money to purchase NVidia
- ferrariman60, on 11/07/2007, -2/+7I'd love to see this hit the mainstream. First though, I'd really love to have native Nvidia driver temperature readings. Come on, Nvidia! Don't make me download Ntune for that! But your hardware rules, don't get me wrong. Love my 8800 GT.
- 35263526, on 11/06/2007, -0/+4I kinda think it has to be that way so people can tinker with it. Proprietary stuff might look a hell of a lot shinier, but you can bet your ass it won't be anywhere near as easy to swap components.
- pak314, on 11/07/2007, -0/+3I don't know why they don't use the SMBUS (system management bus) that is already a part of most PCs. Just needs to routed to devices outside the motherboard.
- frgmstr, on 11/06/2007, -3/+6NVIDIA states that they have great things lined up for the enthusiast, but when we asked for hardware to just check out, not review, we came up short. :(
- shifty2, on 11/06/2007, -3/+6all i read was "blah, blah, blah, im a whiny little bitch"
seriously, how do you think power and information gets from device to device? magic? hopes and dreams?
maybe instead of putting your emo makeup on while you cry at the site of the inside of your computer, please take some time and clean up the cabling.
worse comes to worse, you can just put the side back on your case and it would be out of site and and out of mind. - BuckCynnie, on 11/07/2007, -0/+2Just what I need, a hacker with tools to turn off all of my fans and boost the voltage to my processor and video cards. They better put in some fail safe or build some security into the spec.
- lambda, on 11/07/2007, -0/+2They should build some sort of SERIAL BUS, and maybe make it UNIVERSAL so that any sort of device could use it, and send information to the host.
- frgmstr, on 11/07/2007, -0/+2This is actually using USB so it is one of those things that should be able to be universal to begin with. But I would expect to see standards from AMD and Intel alike.
- clickwir, on 11/07/2007, -4/+6AMD+Nvidia > AMD+ATI
I'm still bitter over that move AMD. - gorkish, on 11/06/2007, -0/+2Dugg for ANYTHING that will allow me to test and monitor a power supply in operation. As a mostly back of the envelope estimate, I think that the great majority of problems that I debug these days are caused either directly or indirectly by the power supply -- either directly through a fault or indirectly by aging or poor quality components not living up to the PSU's specs. I do think that this "ESA" thing is really missing one very important feature -- all of this monitoring and logging is great, but since this stuff is all monitoring hardware that might be causing system hangs or crashes, the critical problem is that currently there is none of this monitoring happening out-of-band on a typical computer. ESA really should specify some kind of baseband device that operates independently from the rest of the hardware for the monitoring/logging.
- pcp777, on 11/06/2007, -1/+2NICE!
- ferrofluid, on 11/18/2007, -0/+1It would be worth AMD/ATI cooperating with NVidia on this, Intel and the other chipset mobo makers too.
A unified health system that is compatible with major player benefits the both consumer and the companies.
We didnt need HD-DVD Bluray competing and fragmenting the market, they could have worked out a standard before releasing too. - frgmstr, on 11/06/2007, -0/+1I think you have said a mouthful here! Good PSU monitoring would be a great thing. My last two big computer issues have been caused by shoddy power issues.
- frgmstr, on 11/06/2007, -0/+1I think you have said a mouthful here! Good PSU monitoring would be a great thing. My last two big computer issues have been caused by shoddy power issues.
- AceGoober, on 11/07/2007, -4/+4^^ Ditto to the above.
I'm very interested to see the offerings from the major players involved in ESA. - NotSoSimple, on 11/07/2007, -0/+0Pretty cool tech, if it comes around. Vaporware=bad.
- Giga, on 11/07/2007, -0/+0The old windows and current linux nvidia drivers natively do that. I hate the way the windows drivers are going these days.
- Reeze101, on 11/07/2007, -0/+0Interesting......
hmmmmm....... - inactive, on 11/06/2007, -2/+2Interesting
- FlyCO, on 11/06/2007, -3/+3Won't be long until PCs turn "smart" enough to monitor and fix themselves
Oh God, Skynet is REAL - accvrat, on 11/06/2007, -1/+0he's right, we need a standardized pc based midplane, just plug cartridges (drives, motherboards, power sp, pci cartridges) in the front or rear... Make it so even "mom" can upgrade one... Kinda like a cheap bladecenter..., they can call it system-X, that would be orgional...
- Topher06, on 11/06/2007, -6/+1I really am hoping that someone develops a "modern" PC. I look into the side of my PC and sigh every time. Full of way too many crappy wires and I still have one stupid ribbon cable connecting my optical drive and all the empty useless PCI slots and the frickin huge capacitors, it just looks like something from the eighties despite having the latest video card and CPU and RAM in it. The insides of a Mac Pro look awesome, but then thats just Apple hand picking their hardware and putting shiny tin covers on everything (hiding the PC ugly). To me, this ESA just sounds like plunking more fans and a tangle of more cables to connect them and sensors rather then cleaning up the insides of a PC. Despite the technology changing, the insides of a PC look pretty much the same 20 years later, its time to be re-invented.
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